Australian doctor improperly prescribed steroids

Certain physician abuse their position, prescribing medications which don’t correspond to medical needs of patients. Why does it happen? It is known that certain products are claimed to be prescription medications. It means that you can’t buy them legally, if you don’t have any prescription from your treating physician. Anabolic steroids belong to such drugs. It is illegal to purchase steroids without a prescription in several countries. Those that do it may be punished. They may be sentenced to imprisonment and/or fines. Of course, a lot of persons seek methods to buy and administer these preparations without having legal troubles.
Anabolic steroids are often abused. Numerous athletes and bodybuilders use these preparations not for clinical purposes but for increase of performance. If they live in countries where these preparations can’t be purchased legally without prescriptions, they find certain ways to mask their illicit purchase and administration. Athletes, bodybuilders and even ordinary people ask their health care providers to prescribe them these drugs, as if they had therapeutic needs to administer them. Thus, certain doctors promote selling anabolic steroids to those who abuse them. Here is a situation.
Peter Grant, an Australian health care provider, recommended steroids to 14 patients during nine years. Medical state of these individuals didn’t require administration of these medicines. Thus, the physician was accused of inappropriate practicing medicine. For example, he recommended to a patient applying such preparations, as Halotestin, Sustanon, Andriol Testocaps, Deca Durabolin, Scitropin and Proviron. But there was no any medical basis to recommend these drugs to this person. Furthermore, these drugs were prescribed him during 9 years.
The doctor Peter Grant acknowledged that certain patients were competing. So, he prescribed them steroids. He also admitted to reading scientific information about anabolic steroids. He claimed that he knew how steroids acted. So, he supervised the patients who took anabolic steroids.
Taking these factors in consideration, it is possible to confirm that the physician Peter Grant was better known by those that took steroids for increase of performance than by those that had to be treated from certain diseases. Peter Grant confirmed that he knew that steroids were purchased by his patients only for personal usage.
When the doctor appeared in the court, the judge confirmed that the physician induced selling steroids. The judge noticed that Peter Grant had to be punished properly. Peter Grant was suspended from practicing medicine for one year. Furthermore, the judge claimed that he would be disciplined during the next 2 years.